{"id":1850,"date":"2011-05-04T06:49:51","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T10:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shieldsgroup.com\/?p=1850"},"modified":"2011-05-03T16:55:30","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T20:55:30","slug":"the-trivialization-of-christs-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/04\/the-trivialization-of-christs-return\/","title":{"rendered":"The Trivialization of Christ&#8217;s Return&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Regardless of the date on the calendar, this has been a safe statement to make: <em>There\u2019s a lot of interest in the end times. <\/em><\/strong>There  is. There was. There always will be. Sometimes opportunists take  advantage of this and create \u201cministries\u201d that focus exclusively on  this, either for a season, as in a few months, to a lifetime.<\/p>\n<p>Because of this, we can again say it today. <em>There\u2019s a lot of interest in the end times<\/em>. And there is a ministry that is promoting the idea that judgment is going to happen this month. May 21, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>This podcast addresses what we can and cannot know about the end times and gives us something productive to do in the mean time.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2213\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1850-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/mp3s\/amq\/2011\/matthew\/20110501UntilIDrinkItAnewInMyFathersKingdom_TheReturnOfChrist.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/mp3s\/amq\/2011\/matthew\/20110501UntilIDrinkItAnewInMyFathersKingdom_TheReturnOfChrist.mp3\">http:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/mp3s\/amq\/2011\/matthew\/20110501UntilIDrinkItAnewInMyFathersKingdom_TheReturnOfChrist.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/mp3s\/amq\/2011\/matthew\/20110501UntilIDrinkItAnewInMyFathersKingdom_TheReturnOfChrist.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/?powerpress_pinw=1850-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/mp3s\/amq\/2011\/matthew\/20110501UntilIDrinkItAnewInMyFathersKingdom_TheReturnOfChrist.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"20110501UntilIDrinkItAnewInMyFathersKingdom_TheReturnOfChrist.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><!--powerpress_player-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regardless of the date on the calendar, this has been a safe statement to make: There\u2019s a lot of interest in the end times. There is. There was. There always will be. Sometimes opportunists take advantage of this and create &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/04\/the-trivialization-of-christs-return\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermon-podcasts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9XvmV-tQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}